Chelsey Ledue
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services will award Madison, Wis.-based CommunityConnect HealthPlan the Medicaid Managed Care contract to provide benefits to enrollees in the BadgerCare Plus program in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties.
U.S. Renal Care, a privately held provider of outpatient dialysis services, plans to acquire the Dialysis Corporation of America, a provider of outpatient kidney dialysis centers.
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit obtained a record 148 criminal convictions in the state and recovered more than $283 million in 2009.
U.S. HealthWorks, a Valencia, Calif.-based operator of occupational healthcare and urgent care centers, has acquired the Medero Medical Caring for Workers Center in Ocala, Fla., its 12th location in that state.
The Health Workforce Solutions LLC Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations, shows a slowdown in demand for healthcare workers across a number of regions.
The owner of a Los Angeles-based durable medical equipment company has pled guilty to submitting nearly $500,000 in false claims to Medicare, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
New York Gov. David A. Paterson says the state will help develop urgent care services in Greenwich Village following the closure of Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center.
Detroit-area residents Carlos Grana and Dwight Armstrong have pled guilty to Medicare fraud, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
The L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest public health plan, has received a $15.6 million federal grant to establish the Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center, designed to help doctors in Los Angeles County adopt and use electronic health records.
A Warren, Mich. man has been sentenced to 81 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the federal Medicare program.